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cheetahsprints · 5 years ago

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Blood and Bone

Prompt: Winter Date

Summary: Peridot’s peace is shattered by a welcome interruption.

Words: 1574

Peridot straps on her skates. Verdant eyes scan the frozen lake. Being undead has its downsides - such as always being cold and not gaining muscle mass - but there were perks. It meant she couldn't be colder than she already was. It meant she could skate on thin ice. Even if the ice breaks, it's not a threat, barely an inconvenience.

There was a time when Peridot longed for the sweet release of a stake to her arrested heart.

She takes this time to appreciate her second existence on Earth, as well as the serenity and beauty of winter. She takes slow spins on the ice, pristine snow banks and trees weighed down by twinkling white twirling around in her vision. She pauses at the sound of rustling, followed by a light growl. She casts her senses, but they hit a hastily thrown up barrier - one that somehow feels lazy and sarcastic. She knows it doesn't belong to the nearby pack's Alpha, all sharp and intimidating. She fights a smile, her suspicions already cemented.

Not a minute later, a large, white and furry mass slams into Peridot, and she is barely able to shriek before she's plowed into the snow.

Peridot surfaces, sputtering, to be greeted with the mischievous smile and bright violet eyes of her mate, her forbidden lover. Amethyst still wears her ears and tail, the latter of which wags fiercely, spraying snow everywhere. She licks Peridot's face just to be annoying, from her nose to the triangular tattoo on her forehead.

Peridot's eyes flick to Amethyst's Marrowbind - an uneven cluster of bone shards embedded in her chest that seal her fate as a Lycanthrope - where it's exposed by her loose purple top. Its purpose is similar to the Bloodmark above Peridot's eyes. Since she's a Bloodsworn - known by humans as a Vampire - Amethyst and her kind should be her sworn enemy.

Still Peridot questions, "What are you doing here?! This is clan land!"

"Aw, aren't you glad to see me Ankle Biter?"

Rolling her eyes at the nickname, Peridot scoffs, "Of course. It's just any Bloodsworn with a quarter of a wit could sense your fuzz bucket a mile away!"

"Only a mile huh? Man, I'm trying too hard."

"Trying to get us slain for treason, you mean."

Contradicting her sour tone, Peridot cups her cheeks and kisses her. She's bathed in warmth. Where the radiation of the sun fails to soak into her skin, and a candle no longer burns her flesh at a touch, Amethyst's supernatural heat blankets her.

Peridot isn't so arrogant to assume they're the first pair, but there's nothing on record. Discretion is the better part of valor. Peridot sags with relief when Amethyst nuzzles her neck. She gathers Peridot in her strong arms. Peridot is a bit of a sucker for being handled, especially since the disappointing discovery that no Bloodsworn were muscular eye candy. Any who were muscular when they Turned were soon to atrophy.

"I just missed you so much," Amethyst murmurs. "Not just 'cause it's moon week."

Peridot hums. Amethyst urges, "Come on, give me that nerd monologue."

"It's not a monologue!"

"Whatever you call it, my sensitive ears need that sweet music."

Despite the current ceasefire between their 'sides', Peridot is hesitant to encourage her. Swallowing her fears, Peridot obliges, beginning to idly chat about recent events and discussing her job and hobbies. During this, Amethyst hoists Peridot on her shoulders. She probably feels like a feather. Amethyst is no powerhouse compared to others in her pack, especially her Alpha. She's considered a runt, but that doesn't stop Peridot from enjoying the ripple of her muscles. Amethyst carries her through the woods and on a hike up the cliffside. All the while, Peridot has her sense out like a net.

As a young Vampire, Peridot never fought a Werewolf before Amethyst, and she was led to believe that her kind was superior and more indestructible. She was, in a word, cocky. One injury, a broken shin that threw her into war flashbacks, and she was down. Amethyst was wounded six ways to Sunday, bleeding and spitting blood, yet she fought like a storm of maternal ursine.

Until Peridot had started screaming and crying like Amethyst had ripped her legs clean off. Somehow recognizing the panic attack, Amethyst had approached cautiously, eventually getting permission to haul Peridot to a secluded area. She nursed her back to health. Peridot fled right after, fearing favors being extracted. When Amethyst asked nothing of her, they sat by a river in neutral territory over red meat and blood bags. For hours on any days that could be spared, they talked.

How she had been humbled. Humility became appreciation, they formed a friendship and… undying love. Peridot felt she could search ten thousand lifetimes and never forge a bond like this again. Overcoming her preconceived notions to give Amethyst a chance was the greatest decision she ever made. Love is worth the suffering, Peridot tells herself day to day, when the worries get the best of her.

Distantly, Peridot hears Amethyst ask if she's alright and the sound of snow crunching under bare feet. She must have lapsed into silence. She dives in where she's left off, more to distract herself from dark musings than anything.

As they reach the apex, Amethyst remarks, "It's so nice to hear the sound of your voice, chatting my ear off. My pack are all monosyllabic with the occasional grunt y'know?"

Peridot sinks her fingers into Amethyst's hair, broadcasting happiness that her mate can probably scent. She scratches her scalp, earning a low rumble that Peridot recognizes as the Lycan equivalent of a purr. Peridot says, "For my part, it's a liberating experience to actually have someone listen and care about what comes out of my mouth."

Her mind darts to her roommate. She's about the only Bloodsworn in Peridot's faction that she can stand, and they're friendly intellectual rivals at best.

She goes on, "Pearl is engaging, she doesn't talk down on me or outright ignore me like my superiors… but she's also an expert at turning the conversation to herself, and damned if she ever heeds anything important I'll tell her. She'll claim she misheard, when really she couldn't pull her head out of her self-important ass."

Peridot has the utmost respect for Pearl, though her words shadow it. Pearl is well aware Peridot trash talks her - it happens face to face, and Pearl gives as good as she gets. It's hard to believe the brazen rebel was once a human bloodslave surviving on the edge of desperation. Many of their kind consider her lesser - less capable, less intelligent, less powerful, less valuable. Between each other, they have trust and admiration enough to tease in good spirits.

Amethyst chuckles.

"Moon Goddess light my path! I hear that. Wish I had a sirloin for every time I spoke and my Alpha replied with 'no one cares'. Those stuck up butt-munches deserve each other." Amethyst mutters, "Copying us and acting like they invented the notion, pah."

Peridot chortles along. They stop. Peridot examines the hill, spotting a two person sled. Her eyes widen. She scrambles from Amethyst's back and attempts to escape, but Amethyst is too quick even for Vampiric speed. Of all species, Bloodsworn and Lycanthropes are the most well matched. It's unfathomable that they should use their compatibility for murder and misery.

Peridot protests, "I'll fall off, or you'll crash!"

"So hang on tight, ya dip. It's not like we'll die. We won't crash again anyway, I've got the hang of this thing. Promise."

Peridot shoots her a deadpan expression before she's dragged across the snow. It's the optimal consistency for sledding, and Peridot focuses on frozen water flakes instead of her terror frozen inside her, unable to evoke a proper response. Amethyst marches to the sled. Peridot has little choice but to clasp the lip while Amethyst settles behind her. Peridot takes to lecturing her in order to stay sane.

"My body, held up by the strings of dark magic, no longer produces adrenaline. Therefore, it lacks a fight or flight response, resulting in Bloodsworn being either overly reckless or overly cautious with no gauge or filter." Peridot continues, "Harrowing yet not life threatening situations are sensationally overwhelming and impossible to process."

"Yeah, and it's funny," Amethyst responds. “Like when I’m giving you hickeys and you just go limp.”

As her lungs no longer have to trifle with the mortal requirement of breathing, Peridot screams without pause the whole way down. Amethyst laughs like a maniac behind her. Lycanthropy causes her to constantly be high on adrenaline, seeking thrills. She at least shows she cares by having a firm grip of Peridot's small waist. Amethyst has added several ramps, and she yells out points for herself throughout the ride. She guides the sled by throwing her body weight alone, and there's numerous near misses. Amethyst shifts her hand into a paw and digs it into the ground to bring the sled to a gradual halt.

Peridot stumbles off on shaky legs and collapses face first into the snow. The tremble spreads to her body, which is immediately wrung out as though she ran ten thousand miles without replenishing on blood. Amethyst turns her over and rests her in the crook of her arm, stroking her forehead. Amethyst always coddles her after these experiences, so it's not lacking in benefits.

#amedot #amedotweek #su #Vampire Peridot #Werewolf Amethyst #Forbidden Relationship #why not?#su fic #Implied Jaspearl #mentions of death #supernatural genre au #fantasy setting #vague lore #dark magic #fluff

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truthbeetoldmedia · 7 years ago

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The 100 5x11 "The Dark Year" Review

Episode 11 picks up where Episode 10 left off, shortly after Clarke’s found her mother unconscious from an overdose. With Madi’s help, she pumps Abby’s stomach and gets her conscious again, but Abby is ashamed of her state, much as she was after coming out of the City of Light in Season 3. At Abby’s recommendation, Clarke ties Abby down and administers an opioid blocker to put her into detox quickly. As Abby fades in and out of consciousness, we see her flash back to two years after Praimfaya, the beginning of the ominously-named Dark Year.

Everything in the flashbacks is filmed with a shorter focal length than normal, with lots of camera tilts, giving everything an unsteady, upsetting feeling. A fungus has destroyed the soybean crop, meaning they have no source of protein. Cooper was able to salvage some seeds, but it’ll take a year before they can eat from them again. And if they don’t get 10% of their calories from protein, Abby says, they’ll starve.

Abby immediately knows that they need to eat the executed criminals, suggesting it so quickly that it seems she must have thought ahead to this possibility. It’s ironic that Abby used the horror of cannibalism to convince the Sky People to let the grounders back into the main part of the bunker during "Red Queen" (remember, she painted a pretty horrific picture for Cooper about how as the people starved, they’d turn to cannibalism) only to have to encourage cannibalism less than two years later.

A group of people sit in the bunker, palm-sized cubes of a red, gelatinous substance before them on each of their lunch trays. Octavia takes the first bite, encouraging the rest to do the same, but Kane stands up and tells them that it’s their choice. Several people get up and leave along with Kane. But Abby later tells Octavia that she can’t allow them to abstain from eating; if they do, they’ll starve to death, but their muscles will atrophy and there won’t be enough meat on them to eat. She doesn’t even want Octavia to make an exception for Kane, because she knows that he’s the key.

At the next meal, Octavia confronts those who refuse to eat, ultimately shooting and killing several, before Kane breaks and takes a bite, which leads the rest of the people to. Octavia and Abby knew that Kane wouldn’t break if Octavia threatened to kill him, but he would do it to save other people’s lives.

As Abby detoxes, she becomes cruel, struggling against the restraints that she had Clarke put on her. Much like when Raven was possessed by ALIE, Abby tears into Clarke for being the one who decides who lives and who dies and tries to convince Madi to stop Clarke from continuing the detox. Once she gets through the worst of it, and out of her Dark Year flashbacks, however, Abby confides in her daughter what she had been responsible for and why she became addicted to the pain medication.

The detox works, and Abby is able to resume her work curing the miners. Madi is less than thrilled that they’re helping McCreary, and tries to sneak up and stab him while he’s on the examination table. Clarke sees the knife and heads her off, but Madi can’t understand why Clarke is siding with McCreary over Octavia. “She bore it so they didn’t have to,” she says, echoing Dante Wallace’s and Clarke’s words from the past. We never saw Clarke say the phrase to Lexa, so the few hours the Flame was in Clarke’s head must have been enough for it to record her memories as well as those of the past commanders. But Octavia didn’t bear anything for her people; clearly Wonkru is still traumatized. “We’re on the wrong side of this war,” Madi claims, but Clarke says, “But you get to live.” Madi echoes Abby’s words, asking how they can live with themselves.

Most of Spacekru, Kane, and Zeke are all hiding out in a cave with Diyoza and her people. As they try to set up a radio so they can contact Bellamy, they realize that McCreary’s men are mobilizing at the entry points to the valley, which means Wonkru must be marching. Echo manages to get in touch with Bellamy, both of them speaking Trig in case McCreary’s men intercept it. Bellamy points out that if Clarke is with McCreary, she could translate, and Echo says that she’ll “deal with Clarke later.”

(Girl, if Bellamy was willing to poison his own sister to keep her safe, I highly doubt he’s gonna let you “deal” with her. But at Conageddon, Tasya Teles teased that there would be a big action sequence between Clarke and Echo.) Echo takes charge and leads Raven, Murphy, and Emori out to scout for ways for the Wonkru army to get into the valley and defeat McCreary. Kane wants to come, but Echo refuses, saying he has to earn her trust. (Funny, since she hasn’t really earned anyone else’s.)

As the four Spacekru members crouch in the snow at the top of a pass, watching Eligius building gunner positions, Murphy spots a box of guns and ammunition. “They can’t shoot us with what they don’t have,” he points out, so they creep over to steal them. But they get caught and surrounded. Just as they think they’re about to die, Zeke bursts out of the underbrush and offers a trade: himself for their lives. The Eligius men decide to take him and still kill the others, but as they grab Zeke, he surprises them with his hand-to-hand fighting skills and kills them all. He tries to talk to Raven, but she’s furious and storms off.

It’s possible that him offering to surrender himself reminded her of Finn’s surrendering to the grounders and subsequent death, and Raven avoids Zeke because she’s realizing her feelings for him. After they report their findings to Diyoza, she realizes she dropped her notebook when they were fleeing — a notebook that had plans for every possibility she could think of. And we all know how brilliant she is. She does manage to think of one plan, but we don’t get to hear it yet…

When Octavia’s army first starts their march, Bellamy and Indra warn her that she’s leading them into a trap, because McCreary knows they’re coming, but she doesn’t care. When they later get the plan from Echo, Octavia seems grateful to Echo for once, and tries to reconnect with her brother (who has just ignored a proffered hand from Miller). Bellamy tells Octavia that his terms for helping her are that they accept Eligius’ surrender; no executions, no fighting pits, and that they live in peace.

Octavia agrees, upset that he doesn’t think that’s what she wants, and says that they’re back to how they’re meant to be: fighting side by side. But Bellamy has had enough and tells her, “I’m not fighting for you. I’m fighting to get back to my family.” He leaves as tears rise in Octavia’s eyes, and she angrily tells Indra that once they’re in the valley, everything they’ve had to do will be worth it. “I hope you’re right,” Indra responds.

Four days later, the night before the war, Diyoza’s people and Spacekru are all in their position in the woods, ready to put their plan in motion in just a few short hours. Zeke approaches Raven, asking why she’s mad at him for saving her life. She continues to ignore him, so he starts to walk away, only to be stopped by Raven grabbing his jacket and pulling him in for a kiss. “I’m not mad at you for saving my life, I’m mad at you for making me care about yours.”

They kiss again, and we see Echo watching in the background. Emori sits down next to her and slings an arm around her shoulders, assuring her that she and Bellamy will be together soon. But this doesn’t seem to make Echo feel any better; is she realizing that everything did change on the ground, despite Bellamy’s assurances otherwise? She goes over the plan one last time, and the shot of her map transitions into the map Bellamy is using to go over the plan with Octavia and her generals.

The night before the war, Bellamy sits alone by a fire, his hand on Echo’s sword sheath. He’s lost Octavia, he’s lost Clarke; Echo and Spacekru are all he has. Monty joins him, and they discuss the future. Once the war is won, Spacekru will take 80 acres separate from the others. “Grow something other than algae,” he teases Monty.

But of course, things aren’t going to go as planned. The last few episodes have set up a very similar plot to Mount Weather in Season 2, and right on schedule comes the betrayal. Kane and Diyoza come to McCreary to doublecross Octavia; Kane would rather have the monster win the valley than the devil.

Abby’s Addiction

Let me start this section by saying that I’ve been kind of uncomfortable with Abby’s storyline ever since her addiction was introduced. With this being my last episode to review and it being nearly the end of the season, I decided it was time to address it. My heart sank a little when we saw her take pain medication on-screen in 5x02, “Red Queen,” because more often than not, onscreen pain medication use leads to an addiction storyline. And in my opinion, these storylines contribute to the stigma surrounding pain medication, specifically opioids.

In this episode Diyoza says, “Opiates are a bitch. Back in the service, I lost more men to pills than war.” (Let me just say that when you’re in the kind of pain that tylenol and mindfulness won’t do a thing for, opioids are definitely not “a bitch.”) Yes, of course opioid addiction is a very real and serious thing that many people deal with. But as someone with chronic pain who has a prescription for codeine (an opioid) for as-needed pain relief, I know that the panic around the opioid epidemic has made it exponentially more difficult for people with chronic pain to get the pain relief they need.

Statistically, addiction is far more likely to happen with patients with acute (temporary) pain who get over-prescribed opioid pain medications than it is with chronic pain patients, which is one thing The 100 got right with Abby’s storyline. She did have some longer-term pain from being removed from the City of Light, as Raven did, and she started taking the pain meds then. But after she fixed the source of the headaches, she continued taking them. If they had done this with Raven (who still has chronic pain), I’d have been very upset.

But why does this matter, Michaela, you ask, it’s just a TV show. Well, let me talk about something happening in the US right now. Currently before Oregon Medicaid is a plan to force a taper to 0 mg of all opioid-receiving pain patients. If this plan goes through, every person with chronic pain in the state of Oregon will no longer have access to much-needed pain relief, with the replacement treatments being cognitive behavior therapy, acupuncture, mindfulness, pain acceptance, and treatment with non-opioid medications, such as Tylenol.

Now, if these things work for you, great! But opioids are generally only prescribed to chronic pain patients after exhausting many other possibilities. My old primary care physician refused to prescribe me a low dose of codeine (the most mild of the opioid pain medications) for times when my pain was high enough that I couldn’t stand it — and I (and most chronic pain patients) have a pretty high pain tolerance — even when no other options would help.

I’ll stop before I get on too much of a soapbox here, but basically: television has an impact on society, as I’m sure everyone in this fandom knows. And when every character who ever uses pain medication long-term on television is an addict (another notable example is Dr. House from House, MD), the general public, who don’t know any people with chronic pain, are going to associate long-term pain medication use with addiction, which only hurts pain patients further. While Paige Turco is absolutely doing an incredible acting job as Abby, I’m disappointed in The 100 for perpetuating this.

Something that could have made this storyline work is showing Abby’s point of view on it, but instead we only see her addiction through the eyes of other characters and how it affects them; Kane, Diyoza, and Raven, for example. This storyline feels like something pulled from a different show and not successfully woven in with this narrative, unlike the other addiction storylines we’ve seen (Jasper’s alcoholism and wanting to stay in the City of Light, and to an extent, Raven’s City of Light story). Because it’s not successfully done, Abby’s storyline only takes time away from other plots that are more central to the story.

There Are No Good Guys

Octavia continues to cry out “CHOOSE,” but consistently takes away her people’s choice. She asks for her advisors to give her another choice, but when there is one clearly available, she refuses to take it. As Clarke pointed out in Season 4, “only choice” is an oxymoron.

While it’s true that there wasn’t really another choice during the Dark Year when they needed a source of protein, she has certainly had other options since then, most notably that Wonkru could have survived in Polis once Monty got the hydrofarm running, with the long-term plan of using his algae to make the soil fertile again. But rather than giving her people the option to stay there and live in peace, or to surrender to Diyoza and live in the valley in peace, Octavia burned down the hydrofarm to force the war she’s been hankering for. Octavia keeps thinking about the next thing; “Once we get in the bunker, things will be better.” “Once I unite the clans, things will be better.” “Once we get through the Dark Year, things will be better.” “Once we get out of the bunker, things will be better.” “Once we get to the valley, things will be better.” It’s never-ceasing, and things never are better. If Wonkru wins the battle for the valley, there will just be another thing, and Octavia will continue doing more and more horrible things.

As Clarke said in the season premiere, “what happens to the Commander of Death when there is no one left to kill?” Clarke was able to wash away the pain of the past and start fresh (as much as one can after going through what she has), but I don’t see any realistic way that Octavia will be able to — all the huge moments that could have snapped her out of her tyrannical state have had no effect on her, and she has just dug herself further into the darkness.

Abby is doing this to an extent, too — in the promo for 5x12, “Damocles Pt 1,” we see her repeat, “First we survive, then we find our humanity again.” But what happens if you’ve gone too far? What a contrast it is from Season 1 when Marcus told her, “I choose at every turn and at every cost to make sure that the human race stays alive,” and Abby responded, “That’s the difference between us, Kane. I make sure we deserve to stay alive.”

That’s still the difference between them, though their roles have switched. Marcus knows that there are some lines you can’t uncross, and would rather die than lose his humanity and compromise his morals. But Abby wants to survive at any cost, and even encourages Octavia to do something unthinkable — execute those who won’t become cannibals — to keep Wonkru alive.

The show’s insistence that “there are no good guys” also conversely implies that there are no bad guys, which isn’t the case. Moral greyness has always been a The 100 specialty, but this season they’re trying to make it all equally grey, when in fact some things are still black and white. There are good people, and there are bad people, and there are people in between — none of them is innocent, to quote Maya Vie, and none of them is 100% evil. They all do have their reasons for what they’ve done, and while we’ve seen two flashbacks of how Octavia became Blodreina, this in no way excuses what she — or any of the characters — has done. As Jake Peralta would say, “Cool motive, still murder.”

Looks Like Meat’s Back on the Menu, Boys

A big question raised by "The Dark Year" is whether cannibalism is ever morally acceptable. For me, the answer is “possibly.” While I would never be okay with killing people just to eat them, if the people were already dead (from a non-transferrable cause) and I were starving, I would probably be okay with it — I’ve never attached all that much significance to a body once it’s dead.

But what Octavia did (at Abby’s advice) — killing anyone who refused to eat the human flesh before them — was objectively morally wrong, no matter how much the show tries to push the “there are no good/bad guys” theme. And forcing a fight to the death as punishment for crimes, and then EATING THE LOSERS is just awful. I mean, as harsh as the Ark was, they executed people humanely. I feel like there must have been better options for entertainment than actual gladiator fights — too bad they killed the guy with the guitar in the "Red Queen" flashback.

Before Season 5 premiered, the cast teased that there was a scene that made everyone on set sick, and I’m guessing that was the cannibalism flashback. Those weird jello cubes looked pretty gross, and with the association of them as human flesh… well, you can imagine. Also, what was with the perfect tuna-sashimi-looking cubes?! Like, if you have to eat people, at least try to make it not-gross. Cut it up and put it in the soup; make tacos out of it; ANYTHING but just a hunk of raw-looking grossness.

Human flesh would not be safe to eat raw, so they must have treated it in some way; my roommate suggested that it looks like it may have been ground it up and made it into a spam-like food. Mechanically-separated people, if you will. Yummy. “I’ll have a Big Gulp of highly-filtered urine and some Bunker Nuggets!” “Would you like Palm Frites or Ta-toe Tots with that? Any Man-na Cotta for dessert?” (You have my roommate to blame for that one.)

It’s possible that they intentionally dwelt on the meat as being human to keep from normalizing it, in contrast to Mount Weather hiding the grounders from sight and sanitizing the whole process, dissociating from what they were actually doing. After so long of using grounders to filter their blood, the residents of Mount Weather were mostly okay with it, whereas the people in the bunker are still horrified and traumatized five years later from the cannibalism.

And it’s a good thing that they didn’t normalize it — many fans think they might still be supplementing their rations with human flesh, but I don’t think they are, because it was always a necessary-but-horrific thing. And in Mount Weather, they allowed people with moral objections to abstain from the blood transfusions, but that came back to bite them because those same people helped the delinquents overthrow the mountain. I wonder if Abby had this in mind when she encouraged Octavia to enforce the cannibalism, breaking the people’s spirits and forcing unity.

An Echo in Space

Before Season 5 premiered, we were told many times by actors, writers, and other crew on The 100 that Echo would be much changed from where she was before the time jump, and that she would be an integral part of the self-titled Spacekru who we would love. But honestly, nearly every time Echo is on screen I find myself rolling my eyes.

The rest of Spacekru keep talking about how she proved herself during the six years they were in space, but really, those six years were more like stasis. There were no enemies to fight, no options for betrayal. They simply lived. But now that they’re back on the ground, with outside forces exerting pressure on their little family, Echo has been slipping back into her old ways, betraying Raven’s trust in Shaw, threatening to kill him despite Raven’s pleas, saying she’ll “deal with Clarke,” and all-around just...not being very likeable.

It’s no secret that I ship Bellarke, but my dislike of Echo barely even has anything to do with her relationship with Bellamy. Back at the end of Season 2, when she was introduced, I was intrigued and actually thought a relationship between her and Bellamy could be interesting. Her character has had so much potential, but keeps falling flat. Imagine if she had decided to stay behind when Lexa ordered the retreat from Mount Weather, because she believed that it was wrong, like Lincoln did.

I mean, if we even had a single flashback of her so-called “proving” herself in space, I could swallow it. When she decided to “defect” to Eligius and spy, and hid the flash drive in the other woman’s bullet wound, I was excited to see her actually be the spy she’s been described as, but again, she betrayed the one friend they had as well as Raven’s trust (side note: it’s been said multiple times that Echo and Raven are close, but I’ve seen no evidence of that). Echo continues to be just that; an echo, continuing old habits and rarely showing any dimension.

Zaven

The best moment of the episode was undoubtedly when Raven pulled Zeke (still not calling him Miles) over to herself for a kiss, after avoiding him for four days. She’d realized when he put his life in danger to save hers that she cared for him, and finally acted on her feelings. Many fans of Raven’s had been shipping the two ever since Jordan Bolger’s character was announced for Season 5 and described as “a self-professed adrenaline junkie brimming with brains, wit and bravado.”

It’s been nearly three seasons since Raven has had a love interest, and has had to go through some incredibly difficult things by herself. Of course, romantic love isn’t all that matters, but the girl deserves to kiss a cute boy every now and then. I’m going to be pretty upset if Zeke doesn’t survive the season, after everything they’ve put Raven through. He and Diyoza have been such a wonderful addition to the cast, especially as characters from closer to the present, and I sincerely hope to see both of them (and Diyoza’s baby) in Season 6!

Honorable mentions:

I loved the guy who said “Brother, it took me 10 minutes to find rewind.” MAKE HIM A MAIN IN SEASON 6.

More cannibal puns we didn’t have room for: Cadaviar, Spicy Vinda-Who?, Blood Sausage, Gingerbread Men, Steamed Muscles, Split We Soup, Toe-Furky, Manwich, Dead Velvet Cupcakes, Serf and Turf, Man-icotti, Chili Con Carnage

I’ve been excited to get a good look at Bellamy’s new outfit for quite a while, partly because I’m an artist and partly because he looks darn good in that armor.

I’m SO HERE for Bellamy deciding he’s had enough of Octavia’s treatment of him.

When Echo told Shaw “You can stay,” I actually laughed out loud. She’s not really in charge of that, and he and Raven have been pretty allied for a while now.

The 100 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on The CW.

Michaela’s episode rating: 🐝🐝🐝

#The 100 #The Dark Year #Cannibalism #Addiction #Abby Griffin #Octavia Blake

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Everyone responds to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide therapy in different ways due to the fact that an insufficient quantity of the molecule impacts everyone differently. Some people who receive treatment notification that they do not wake up as commonly throughout the evening. Others discover abrasions recovery much swifter as well as nails thickening. Some individuals appreciate much healthier hair. Nonetheless, it is rather safe to say if you do not have sufficient nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, you have an absence of power.

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Your body continually unravels your DNA so it may be checked out and replicated. Regrettably, there is constantly a risk that the DNA may be damaged when it is unraveled. Your body is pretty good at repairing damaged DNA however nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide molecules play an important duty in that process. If you do not have sufficient nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in your body, some of your DNA might slide through the splits and be damaged permanently.

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There are alternate dependency treatments. However, they merely replace one medicine with a various drug. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide IV therapy functions in different ways. It supplements a necessary particle that supports mind wellness. It eliminates your desires, makes physical and mental withdrawals simpler to go through and may helps to remove the medicine from your body. There is no alternative dependency therapy that is more able than this.

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A protective case covers each necessary nerve in our mind, spine and eyes. Unfortunately, that protective instance may receive damages. When damage happens, the important nerves might be delayed in sending out electric impulses, stop sending those impulses entirely or perhaps send out improper messages. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide secures these safety instances, alleviating the threat of neurological problems.

You'll Take pleasure in Continual Vigor

As we age, we feel and look older because our cells aren't as able doing their jobs as they made use of to be. The result of this is undesirable modifications to our hair, skin, cognitive function, digestive system, muscle mass as well as much more. A lack of pure nicotine adenine dinucleotide is a major part of this, in part since a lack of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide brings about damaged DNA.

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In people with bodies that function as they should, discomfort is a beneficial signal. It shows that there is a problem that requires to be resolved so much more damage to the body does not take place. However, some individuals deal with persistent discomfort as a result of a car crash or chronic ailment. In some cases, to shield itself, the mind normalizes the consistent feeling of discomfort. Unfortunately, this may result in pain receptors transforming how they persuade time.

Ultimately, people living with chronic pain might become a lot more sensitive to pain. With nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide IV treatment, pain receptors and their neuromodulators may be modulated so pain may be managed safely and competently.

Exactly How Does Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide IV Treatment Job?

Remember, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide is a particle that plays a crucial role in virtually every process of your body. It is likewise existing in every one of your body's cells. There is no other vitamin-derived particle that plays a more important duty in the chemical as well as physical processes that happen throughout your body. Young people often tend to have sufficient levels of this crucial molecule. However, with age, the quantity of NAD in the body reduces.

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide IV therapy is productive because it does not include pumping drugs or man-made chemicals right into your body. Rather, it recovers an all-natural molecule that used to be in sufficient supply when you were younger. It recovers vigor by providing your body the tool it requires to recover itself. Without enough nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, your cells merely may not regrow as rapidly as they must and you won't have the energy to take pleasure in life.

What's Great Concerning IV Therapy?

In a globe where you may take a pill for virtually anything, you might wonder what is so wonderful regarding IV treatment. Besides, isn't it less complicated to simply take a dental supplement each day or whenever you feel like you may not concentrate? The regrettable fact is taking dental nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide supplements isn't able. Whenever you take a capsule, tablet or tablet computer, it has to go through your digestion system.

Unfortunately, you may never obtain the maximum feasible benefits of any type of drug or supplement when it is taken orally. A minimal amount of the drug or supplement taken may be soaked up by your digestive system as well as passed into your blood stream. What's so terrific regarding IV therapy is the molecule is injected straight right into your bloodstream so you may take pleasure in the complete advantages of supplements. Additionally, you may enjoy the benefits of treatment brisker.

What MayI Anticipate During a Therapy Session?

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide IV treatment is similar to a typical clinical IV. The primary distinctions are the therapy is done in a comfy, unwinding setup as well as you are receiving nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide supplements rather than just a clean and sterile saline service. Each therapy session will take approximately 90 minutes to finish. You will not really feel any kind of pain as well as you are cost-free to fantasize, catch up on e-mails or watch a TV show on your phone.

We will review your medical history and wellness concerns when you come in for a preliminary appointment. This is to assure the wellness issues you are experiencing may be managed with this treatment and there are no contraindications, such as blood diseases or blood pressure problems.

The Number Of Therapy Procedure Will I Required?

Your unique wellness, health and also power concerns will assist the number of therapy sessions you will certainly need. When we discuss your health and wellness problems at your first examination, we will certainly tailor a treatment strategy that may benefits you. You may experience the advantages of treatment after your first treatment session. However, many sessions are needed for the most outcomes. As an example, you may experience remedy for chronic pain or psychological tiredness after one therapy session.

If you want to "re-shape" your body's pain signals, you might require at the very least 6 therapy sessions. If you are trying to shed excess fat however do not have the physical power to prepare nutritiously as well as exercise as you must or the mental power to make great diet plan and also exercise choices, you may need at least half of a lots sessions. Nevertheless, we highly motivate you to take advantage of the almost immediate boost of power you'll get from therapy and meal prep and work out.

Just how Able Is This Therapy?

This treatment is incredibly reliable. When taken orally, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide supplements may virtually triple the quantity of the molecule in the body. Nonetheless, we wish to state that oral supplements are not also nearly entirely bioavailable. You get a lot more of a benefit from obtaining intravenous supplementation every couple of weeks for a few months. Your nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide degrees increase a lot more than threefold.

Just how Should I Plan for My Treatment?

Although this therapy is non-invasive, there are numerous things you ought to do to prepare for your treatment. We will give you every one of the pre-treatment instructions throughout your preliminary meeting. Nonetheless, we 'd like to highlight one of the most important factors currently. The night before your set up therapy session, obtain a good night's sleep. Rest functions wonders on stress and anxiety. If you're really feeling a little uncertain regarding IV treatment, a solid evening of remainder will certainly help you feel loosened up.

You ought to likewise emphasize to drink plenty of water the day before your set up treatment session. The more moisturized you are, the smoother your treatment will certainly go. Ensure your urine is clear or light as opposed to cloudy or dark. On the day of your arranged treatment session, eat a healthy, healthy dish. Eating at the very least 20 grams of healthy protein with your breakfast will go a long way in guaranteeing your blood sugar level is steady throughout your session.

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Your body has the power to heal itself. It wishes to obtain lots of remainder, protect against discomfort, fix its cells as well as feature as it should. Nevertheless, the older you obtain, the more challenging it is for your body to recover itself. NAD may help your body do what it needs to do.

Aid your body recover itself today as well as sleep well tonight understanding you will be shielded from troubles tomorrow.

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Exasperation is thy name - Chapter Seven

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Cassian and Jyn exchanged a glance, both of them were not sure what to make of the interview. They could acknowledge that it would probably have been illuminating if not useful to Dacia, but at the moment they weren’t sure how what they could only describe as a massive waste of time, could be in any form useful. Looking at one another and shrugging, they had both realised a long time ago that Dacia could be a lot smarter than them. At least when it came to things like strategy, or reading between the lines, something which Cassian for one had had some experience with doing, but he wasn’t as patient as their Jedi friend to continue doing it. Not to such a degree that he felt that he could rely upon to a similar degree as Dacia.

It would no doubt take them a long time to struggle through some of the things that she normally found so easy to deal with, or at least practised the art of making if look easy. Dacia was flicking through some of the screens on the monitor, with what looked like a semi-permanent frown on her face. Glancing at each other in consternation, they wondered how long this discussion would take. Cassian darted around the far end of the nodule, and when he turned around to face them. Folding his arms across his chest, as he tried to work out how he wanted this discussion to take place.

“So, what is the verdict you have of that interview Dacia?” Cassian asked, tightly.

“It seems as if we aren’t going to be able to get much sense out of the man, at least that was what I thought.” Dacia started, leaning back, chewing her lips.

“So, it seems as if the man wasn’t able to give us much more to go on, but there has to be something baked into that useless waffle? I was too busy in there, watching the man’s reactions, asking him the questions, but did you hear anything in there Cassian?” Jyn asked the man.

“No, I didn’t think so, not at first, but then I was doing the same thing as you. I was watching the man’s reactions. What struck me, was that he seemed to genuinely believe what he was saying in there. That’s what troubles me; he seems as if he was genuinely confused. If what he was saying is right, I don’t think much of Designation (Former): Captain America’s leadership skills. He seems to think a lot of withholding potentially vital information. On the one hand, I can understand this on Designation (Former): Captain America’s inclination, he didn’t expect for anyone to be more useful to him, but talk about cold on the part of the man.” Cassian mused, sharing his thoughts, with the two what he had managed to glean from the interview he had just stood threateningly in.

“Interesting, we can’t both agree on what may or may not have happened, but the one thing we can agree on is that is pretty unlikely that the guy knows anything. Eugh, this is such a mess, I've got to tell you, I don’t trust that this guy knew enough to make it worth our while. Cassian do you have anymore more ideas on how we can go about this next part? Anything that you can think of that we may have overlooked Jyn? Now don’t be shy, it’s an all hands on deck type situation, we have on our hands here!” Dacia goaded her two friends into speaking.

“No, but if we interview Designation: Hawkeye, it’s possible that he might know more about this problem. Or at the very least he might know more about what was diving Designation (Former): Captain America’s intentions. At one stage he might have been part of the guy’s inner circle. It’s a bit of a long shot, but we might be able to find something else if we simply find the right questions to ask.” Jyn told the two thoughtfully.

“You’re right, at one stage he might have been part of Designation (Former): Captain America inner circle. They did after all have the same former employer, do you think he might have had some inclination on what the guy was thinking or on what his end goals were.” Dacia allowed the man, nodding her head in answer.

“Okay, well at one point they shared the same employer, can we point out any instances where the two of them may have shared missions separate from the Avengers? Don’t forget that the guy stepped back from the Avengers after the Sokovia mess, so anything he could give us might (and probably) is outdated.” Cassian pointed out, not willing to want for the girls to begin building their hopes up to something, that may simply be a longshot.

“At this point, it’s the only chance we’ve got. Jyn have you gotten any further in scrubbing that video? The first one I mean?” Dacia sighed.

“Yes, I have, but as per always, there are plusses and minuses to the whole thing. We can’t be sure whether or not Designation (Former): Captain America shared that intel with anyone else. Until we can interview Designation: Falcon, we won’t know if he ever shared with him. When will we be interviewing him again?” Jyn angrily summarised for the other two.

“We still have a few more to do before we get to him. I figured that I could set up in order of the people who may or may not have been taken into the man’s inner circle. Though, I imagine that it will be fairly unlikely that we can get any answers until we can question the man himself.” Dacia told the man, having glanced down at her notes.

“It is still up in the air, as to whether or not we can trust anything that the man gives us. You’ve been how compartmentalised the man seems to operate; everything is kept on a strictly need to know basis. And right now, it doesn’t seem as if we need to know.” Jyn sighed, still not sure how she should go about the next few days.

Saw Guerra hadn’t spared much time ensuring that the woman knew proper interrogation methods. Or at least the ones that he had thought to impart, where either outright illegal or very unethical, with the highly suspect operating procedure. Jyn was aware that Cassian seemed to have it in his head that Jyn was a frightened lamb, and who was she to show his beliefs to be false. Cassian might have worked within the Resistance, but he wasn’t completely familiar with some of the underhanded methods that Jyn reckoned worked quite well for her.

Jyn didn’t like having to tap into those lessons, not while she had any other option, another choice, because if there was one thing that she was sure off, it was that there was usually a choice. At least that was what Dacia was fond of protesting, was that there was always a choice. Jyn wasn’t sure if she had ever been able to say that there would always be a choice, she tended to walk on a bit of a darker path in life too often for her to be comfortable pretending that everything was black and white. It might be a depressing thing for her to admit that was comfortable walking in shades of grey. She felt that Cassian was more likely to understand this unique facet of her personality. She wasn’t comfortable getting into it with the man; she wasn’t sure how easy it would be for her to tell the man some of what she was already working with. Her demons were her own; they weren’t the man’s, nobody else could deal with them but her.

“Do you think there will chance that we manage to apprehend Designation: Black Widow anytime, she would probably know more about what was going through the man’s head. At least, if she is as good at her job as she likes to think, somehow I don’t think she’s that good.” Cassian started in frustration.

“How do you mean Cassian?” Dacia asked prodding the man for further answered.

“Well, from reading some of the, for want of a better term, the lore surrounding the infamous Black Widow spies, we know that they were exceptionally good at their jobs and feared by adversaries. What if Romanova spent too much believing in her hype to realise that a muscle that isn’t used, or challenged it can atrophy. My analogy got away from me a bit there, sorry about that. But I’d need to look more at how Romanova came onto S.H.I.E.L.Ds’ radar, though dollars to doughnuts I’m going to guess that there might have been something more going on beneath the surface. We’ve read portions from her observation of Dr Stark, back where they first met, the results of that analysis were seriously flawed.”

“Okay, well we can work with this right? Jyn are you closer to pulling the noose around Designation: Black Widow’s hiding place?” Dacia asked, turning to face Jyn.

“Not a lot of luck so far, I have managed to drop some listening programs on various spy agencies across the world. I have managed to get into contact with some European Agencies, which should tell you that some suspicions are that the woman could be found in Europe. Though I would like the caution you that I can’t say with any degree of certainty where the woman is. I have been working with them to find her, which I can say with utmost certainty that we will find her. I don’t give up easily.” Jyn told the two with a funny look on her face.

“Oh dear, this has become personal to you hasn’t?” Cassian laughed.

“Afraid so. You know as well as I do that quitting isn’t in my repertoire, at least not while Saw was around to oversee me growing up. I mean for pities sake if I was able to just throw in the towel from time to time, I very likely wouldn’t have made it this far.” Jyn joked back, with a thunderous look on her face.

“No, no, that’s fine, but for now I think we need to be aware that we will still have a lot of work to do. For now, though, we need to get on with the rest of the interviews. Who is taking Designation: Hawkeye?” Cassian laughed, his mood turning quickly serious as he turned to face Dacia.

“Well, I’ve met him before as Darcy, and perhaps for myself, I want to know whether or not he remembers me.” Dacia frowned.

“You know that’s it’s fairly unlikely that he remember you? He might just remember who his targets were, if you kept yourself to the sidelines as much as you’ve told us, he might not have spared you much of a second glance.” Cassian gently reminded the woman.

“Call it professional curiosity, if you will, but I want to know if someone suspected me of being capable of more than I let on! We might have received information from Hill that they didn’t suspect me, something which pleases me, but at the same time disappoints me. I’m left to believe that it was no wonder that HYDRA had a foothold in S.H.I.E.L.D if they didn’t recognise when the wool was being pulled over their eyes!” Dacia protested.

“Very well, but don’t forget that you are very good at what you do. We all worked together to make that identity watertight; they probably didn’t notice. Do you want one of us in as security?” Cassian tried to reign in a rising temper.

“Yeah, it might hurt my deep in my feminist soul, but Cassian would you mind standing at the back, to at least provide the illusion of tightened security. While I could probably take him down if I needed to, I don’t want to overplay our hand. They might be on this spaceship, but for at least now, they will have no idea who we are and why we have them.” Dacia sighed, fidgeting with her hands as she spoke.

“Sure, will we go now?” Cassian nodded his head in assent.

“Certainly, I’ve got a feeling that this may take us longer than the Designation: Ant-Man interview, after you!” Dacia started for the exit to the room.

WHOOSH

Both Cassian and Dacia were quiet as they made their way through the corridors of the spaceship, both were lost in their thoughts as they wrestled with getting their thoughts together on which questions they wanted to ask. Neither of them was concerned that the man would be able to hide anything, they both knew how to ask the right questions and trip the man up, to the point where they would only need to worry about the man wasting their time. Dacia for one was aware that it would be all too easy for her to torture the man, but she didn’t think that she would get particularly trustworthy answers from the man. Glancing briefly at Cassian, she felt a sudden surge of relief flowing through her, knowing that the man would at least have her back and would be able to spot anything that Dacia had missed.

“You ready for this?” Cassian asked, his voice cutting through the silence like a bullet.

“Are we ever truly ready for what we have to do?” Dacia rhetorically asked.

“Fair enough, but you know what you have to ask him right? We might not have a lot of opportunities if we screw this up after all. We can always question him again, but the one thing that we can’t get back is the element of surprise.” Cassian reasoned in a calm tone of voice.

“Yeah, I will be ready, I know what to ask him, and even if he does no verbally tell us what we need to know, his body language might just give us a hint of what is happening. At the very least though, we need be able to get to the bottom of things and try to understand what may have been driving at Designation (Former): Captain America. Even if he can’t tell us that, he might be able to give us some indication of why he came out of retirement.”

“You know, I doubt that he was ever truly retired. Take it from a spy, and an assassin all rolled into one but what I can tell you, is that it would take trauma to step back. What I mean is that it could take something massive to make him step back. The guy took a very big risk in coming out and taking Designation: Scarlet Witch from the Compound. There is something about how this guy operated that doesn’t strike me as a right; we need to get to the bottom of this, it doesn’t all add up to me.” Cassian grumbled.

“I have heard this theory before, but right now we have a chance to play around with your theory. We need to work this man over, now come on, I don’t want to waste this chance.” Dacia laughed before she hurried away from the man.

Looking back over her shoulder at the man, Dacia momentarily waited for the man to catch up with her before entering into the prison cells. Nodding to one another briefly, they both pulled up their cloaks, wanting to make sure that they at least prested a united front.

As one, the two of them entered the room together, and without even having to glance at each other, they knew what they had come here to do. Cassian glanced over at the cell that contained Designation: Ant-Man and had to hide an eye roll. He wasn’t sure whether or not he could claim to feel any guilt or sympathy for the man, because whoever went out to fight without understanding what they were fighting (and potentially dying) for?!

Looking down at the computer in front of him, Cassian briefly glanced at the keys in front of him; he sometimes felt like he had zoned out when he was deep in thought. Looking over to where Dacia was slowly making her way over to Designation: Hawkeye’s cell, he frowned in confusion when he noticed the woman slowing down her steps.

Dacia looked briefly into the cell, where she could easily see the agitated man pacing back and forth. Realising that she wouldn’t even be able to use her surprise appearance against the guy, she could see that the man had seen her. Faltering in her steps, Dacia thought to herself quickly. She knew that she would get that best chance to nail this guy against the wall if Cassian went in to get the guy. He at least would be able to use his bulk to surprise the man and take him out to the interview room.

Making her way over to Cassian, she gestured the man to lean down and quietly whispered in his ears.

“He’s agitated in there; it might be better if you grab him and we can walk him down to the interrogation interview room.”

Cassian paused and looked at Dacia, considering her carefully before choosing which action he should take next. Nodding his head once, he smoothly made his way over to the correct cell. Glancing over his shoulder at Dacia, he checked that she was still standing in his previous spot over by the central computer console. Side-stepping a little so that he could reach the small panel alongside the cell doors. Flicking through the functions, he listened for the telltale clicking of the locks. When he heard the noise of the other doors clicking shut, he manipulated the lock to Designation: Hawkeye’s doors. Flicking the digital toggle over to open, Cassian shifted his weight from one foot to another, when he saw the word OPEN printed, he stepped in front of the door, wanting to block the exit with his body. He didn’t want to see what would happen if Designation: Hawkeye should decide to bum rush him.

Stepping through the door to the cell, Cassian wrenched the man’s wrists behind his back and cuffed them together. Feeling like he looked as if he was frog-marching the guy from the small cell. Nodding over to Dacia as he passed her, she nodded and peeled away from her spot standing at the computer. The trio must have made a strange sight as they made their way through the spaceship, Dacia glanced up at one of the security cameras swivelling round to face the small group, she smirked a little wondering if Jyn was also being amused watching them.

Dacia wondered idly to herself if Designation: Hawkeye realised that no one was listening to his inane threats. Dacia had to roll her eyes at some of the threats; she wasn’t even sure how they were possible, never mind that the guy was currently tied up. Even if he weren’t, Dacia was sure that a few of them would be difficult to perform. Never mind how unsanitary they could be! Dacia wasn’t sure if she should feel like she had to hide the eye rolls, she might not be looking at Cassian, but she knew that the guy was probably also struggling to hide his eye rolling.

Yanked from her thoughts, with a slightly violent twinge, Dacia realised that they had arrived at the small room which she hoped that she wouldn’t have to spend any longer than completely necessary. Making her way through the sliding door after Cassian and Designation: Hawkeye, she idly watched as the Cassian securely cuffed the man to the desk.

When Cassian felt like he could be comfortable enough with how tightly fastened he had the man, secured from both his ankles and wrists, he nodded at Dacia. She peered back at the man and stepped forward to take her seat in the metallic seat opposite the man. Folding her hands together on the table in front of her, Dacia looked at the man, trying to get the measure of him before she spoke to him. Dacia wanted to build up the pressure and possibly throw the man from his comfort zone. Choosing to put the man out of his misery she began to speak in a low and measured tone.

“So, tell me Designation: Hawkeye, this situation arose when you were lifted from the R.A.F.T prison, just so we can get this interview off to the most productive start, can you tell me that you know why you are here?” Dacia started, peering across at the man.

“No, what the hell is going on here? This is all Stark’s fault! I wouldn’t be in this situation if that guy didn't decide to get involved with something that he didn’t understand. It was none of his business; he didn’t have to do any of this!” Designation: Hawkeye started to protest.

His words inspired a snort from Cassian; he could easily see an irony in the man protesting that someone else did not understand something. It was mildly amusing that the man, who had walked out of safety and retirement to fight in a situation that didn’t need to bother him at all.

“That is funny that you should say that. After all, you didn’t need to get involved, you were supposed to be retired, so forgive me for the stupid question; but how was the Accords going to affect you? You had stepped back from the Avengers after the Sokovia disaster, so you weren’t likely to have to use your abilities, at least not unless you were planning to march into another country. You weren’t were you?” Dacia lightly asked.

“No! Of course, not, but I got the call from Steve that Stark was keeping Wanda captive in the Compound. I had to go in and rescue her; she is just a kid!” Designation: Hawkeye cried out confused.

“Sir, Ms Maximoff is not a kid, she is in her early twenties, on what planet does that make her a kid! But we will go into her background, or at least what we know about it later, first we have to understand what led you to get involved.” Dacia shot back, not even bothering to look up.

Cassian, however, felt like he had to wonder what exactly was going through the man’s head. He wondered briefly if the man was aware of how much he was beginning to sound like a broken record. He wondered idly to himself whether or not he should begin to feel concerned for the man’s sanity. Deciding to himself that he would prefer to simply listen to the man, he shifted his weight and continued to listen to the man.

“Okay, going back a little, can you please explain to us what happened to you when S.H.I.E.L.D? Where you called in then? Where were you when those Helicarriers came down in the Potomac?”

“I heard later that S.H.I.E.L.D had been infiltrated by HYDRA, but I was on a simple milk run of a mission. Even if they had called me in, I wouldn’t have been able to get back in time to help them. I still don’t completely understand why Nat had to dump all of those files; it put so many people in danger, it put me in danger!” Designation: Hawkeye protested, only becoming stymied when he couldn’t cross his arms due to the cuffs around his wrists.

“Okay, but what makes you decide that your life is more important than others. Do you know if a lot of agents exposed were HYDRA members?” Dacia rhetorically asked before she held up a hand before she continued “I’ll tell you there was less than a third who were HYDRA. But do you know how many lost their lives due to that quite frankly immature and irresponsible action cost the agents? That, of course, is regardless of where their loyalties. But maybe you figure that the only good HYDRA agent is a dead HYDRA agent? I don’t entirely disagree with this thinking; goodness knows that I have done this thinking before in the past, I didn’t particularly enjoy it. I will share with you that about fifty-five percent of agents, were killed. Do you by any chance support the actions of the woman?”

“No, but that’s got to be a mistake, why would it have been labelled as an infestation if they were that few among the numbers who were HYDRA agents. Nat is supposed to be so good at everything why would she make such an amateur mistake?”

“We can’t begin to fathom her actions, I don’t think that anyone can, and any chance that we might have had to understand her actions were well and truly scuppered when she arrogantly told Congress to take a hike. She told them that she was too good, too indispensable to be arrested. Now, I’ve got to say we faced that arrogance in our Home Universe because we aren’t from here you know, but to get back to my point and to cut a long story short it wasn’t good. Do you know that a lot or even any of the forty-five percent were saved? Or did you keep yourself separate from those in S.H.I.E.L.D. who weren’t Avengers? Who you saw as below you because they hadn’t attained that level?”

“That sounds like not a lot was saved, are you sure about that number? But I’m sure that you are going to tell me some lies about how those people were saved. The members of S.H.I.E.L.D never forgave me for my actions on the Helicarrier, even though I was brainwashed. They would have sooner added more petrol to my body if I was on fire, rather than help me because they could only see it as my hands had killed their friends and partners on that Helicarrier.” Designation: Hawkeye asked, beginning to affect a confused look.

“That’s right; I am going to tell you, it was Dr Stark and his efforts that saved so many agents. You can, of course, argue that he still lost too many, I’m not going to stop you from arguing this. I do wonder though why Dr. Stark wasn’t called in? Hadn’t Dr Stark stepped in to stop it from becoming too uncomfortable and dangerous for you, giving you home until you could trust yourself enough to go home? Not that you told him where that home was. But anyway she didn’t just release files of the agents, but rather everything, this includes medical information, current whereabouts, possible extraction plans, also information about families. She also released sensitive information such as the current living arrangements of some of those who were in witness protection programmes, due to S.H.I.E.L.D. involvement and activities. But hey that was skin off her nose, she could protect herself, right? What was more, was that very little, if anything, was filtered, everything was leaked. If she had called in Dr Stark, from the get-go, then so much information could have been saved. I still wonder why she didn’t call him in.”

“She told me later that she didn’t know who she could trust. I’m speaking hyperbolically here, but that her faith in the organisation that she had worked for after she had defected, she didn’t want to reach out to a bad actor so to speak. I’m not sure what made her decide to make that call, Stark until that point had been a solid allie, he wouldn’t have betrayed us THEN without good reason.”

“But why did she feel like she couldn’t trust Dr Stark, they fought together, as you did during New York, did she tell you why she felt like she couldn’t trust him?”

“She told me that she didn’t feel as if she could trust the man, based on his initial report.”

“You realise that she wrote the report? It was a flawed report, she went in with preconceived notions, ready to judge the man. I’m not sure how you would term that in intelligence circles, but on an investigatory basis, that’s a bad thing. She wasn’t going with an open mind, so anything that she saw about the man, she was going to make sure that it backed up her previously held judgements. Furthermore, she went in while S.H.I.E.L.D. knew that he was dying, so anything that she observed would not have shown the man in a normal mind frame. He was dying, and normally when people are dying, they tend to act out a bit. So, I’ll ask you again did the woman have any reason for her not to trust and reach out to Dr Stark?”

“Look, you didn’t hear it from me, but Nat wasn’t acting like her usual cold self whenever I had a chance to interact with her. Look, we both know that I love the woman like a sister, but she frustrates me a lot sometimes. Especially with some of her typical lines such as ‘love belongs to children’ I don’t agree with her there. She sounded like a damaged mark when she said that, it sounded as if it ripped from something she forced herself to believe, rather than actually wanted to believe.”

“You mean that you suspect that the woman could have had something going on with someone? I will tell you some of what we suspect about the woman, shall I?” Dacia lightly asked.

“Hell, I gave up trying to understand that woman years ago. Be my guest.” Designation: Hawkeye tried to gesture to Dacia to continue.

“Have you ever heard the phrase ‘the lady doth protest’? I’m sure I’m butchering that phrase, there are probably English Literature students out there crying over my words. See, what we think is that the woman was beginning to feel something for Rogers, she allowed that to manifest into a blindside. She didn’t know what to do with the new emotions that grew up within her towards the man, so she listened to him, and she put his judgement and orders before hers. We can’t even pretend that the woman’s judgement was completely sound if you are confused to think back on some of what we said.”

“But she always said that love was for children. She couldn’t have felt anything for the guy, at least not anything romantic. How can you even say that about the woman?” Designation: Hawkeye shot back starting to sound like a broken record.

“We don’t think a lot of someones that gets themselves into situations where they begin to question their every move, simply because they fall for a pair of baby blue eyes. We’ve seen that and it leads to a dark place, we have no desire to go back to that place. Heck, I was almost in that very position myself! So, did she share with you any intel about what she may have found during that time?”

“No, that woman is like a closed book, if she doesn’t want to you to know something, you can bet your sweet ass that you won’t find out about it. At least not easily, everything with her is like pulling teeth. Why do you ask?” Designation: Hawkeye shifted as much in his seat as he could uncomfortably.

“Some of the things set in motion at just that time may have had a considerable amount of impact to some of the things that still bother us today. We’ll talk more about that later, right not it’s not the most pressing concern. At least, not right at this second it isn’t. She didn’t tell you anything more about what she found; she wants to attempt to clear up how much she knew. We also need to know more about the potential motives of Rogers, after all, we can get any answers until we can question the man himself.” Dacia told the man, having glanced down at her notes.

“What do you mean, what happened to Stark, he was fine when we last saw him. What do you mean? TELL ME WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT!”

“Oh, nothing but that guy hasn’t woken up yet from whatever your pal, your friend Rogers decided to do to the guy. Right now though I want to ask you more about why you didn’t simply stay retired after Sokovia. What happened to you to make you go against your better judgement. As far as we can tell you didn’t know Maximoff before then, or maybe you did across the field of battle, care to shed a little light on that?”

“I already told you everything you asked, why are you still so fascinated with that girl!?”

“Look, I’ll tell you some of what we suspect about the Witch. We suspect that woman has her powers under better control than she lets on. See, right now we’re concerned that she may have had her hands in your head. After all, you can’t even become a top operator for HYDRA unless you were particularly psychopathic and an expert at using your own unique skill set. So, tell me at what point did you decide that Dr Stark was a bad guy? I’ve got to tell you, that doesn’t seem to add up with some of what we know about how you saw the guy before you decided to retire you seemed to be on good terms. After all, the two of you seemed like you were friends. So what we don’t understand I guess is how you thought of the man changed so drastically?”

“It isn’t something that I can easily put the finger on, but all that I can remember was that after ULTRON I was messed up in the head, I had seen what had become of us. I couldn’t forgive Stark for creating that thing. He had cost that country; he had obliterated a city from the map, how was I supposed to trust him again?”

“Except in your service with S.H.I.E.L.D. and earlier with the army, you had done so much worse, hadn’t you? Not that I’m saying that ULTRON was excusable because it wasn’t, but it wasn’t his fault, not entirely. At least not entirely, there was a whole internal review, and the review and audit found some interesting things. It was also the work of the Scarlet Witch having played with his mind. I have gone through some of the records of that period and found that the man had tried to tell you guys that, but as per usual you didn’t, maybe we can’t blame you, after all, you were supposed to be away from the Avengers.”

“Stark was never hit by Wanda’s powers, she got everyone but the two of us in South Africa, when would she have even found an opening to attack the man?”

“Sokovia and in case you think I’m lying the recordings from the suit told us, but more importantly the numerous inquests of his actions showed this. You see when the man entered the castle he was away from all of you; he left the relative safety of his suit. When he was in there, I can tell you that the suit and JARVIS were able to monitor his brainwaves. What Dr Stark had written off as a vision or another PTSD laden panic attack, but Scarlet Witch had played into his fears. He was given a vision of all of you guys dead, and with his lasts words the supposedly righteous Captain America blamed him.”

“He never told us that, why didn’t he tell us that?”

“I’m just assuming here, but I’m going to guess that he knew that you guys wouldn’t have listened to him. You were already dismissive of his panic attacks and when he spoke to you about what he saw on the other side of that wormhole. What reason would he have to believe that you would listen to him about this? He studied the Sceptre fulling intending to send it off to Thor the next day; the ULTRON programme had already been shelved. But when you lot decided that playing with Thor’s hammer was a marvellous idea, ULTRON was in a sense born. During this time, JARVIS, which was Dr Stark’s finest, most encompassing AI, which he also thought of like a mix between his son and butler and modelled after a father figure, was the first casualty. JARVIS was killed trying to stop the ULTRON program from taking over. You never even tried to empathise with the guy, after did you?”

“No, I didn’t, but JARVIS was nothing more than a computer program. Yes, he was good at what he did, but we never saw anything to suggest that the guy thought anything more about that programme, would it even have mattered whether or not we asked him after. The guy was also a closed book; we never knew if he was lying to us or even telling us everything. He could be boasting about some of what useless rubbish his company had managed to do and at the same time could be telling absolutely nothing at all.”

“Okay, well some of your points were exceptionally far off the mark, but I would still like to thank you for talking to me. Another thing we want you to think about is how far you were willing to go to for Scarlet Witch. After all, there’s a lot of people in the world that are pissed off with the Avengers but what about her made you decided to go against the man you had once been? Was she spreading her legs for you? Because newsflash, she is no innocent and has killed a lot of people over her short time on Earth, in particular during her service to HYDRA. An organisation which she joined of her own free will and was already a good operative of before she received the experimentation that allowed her to unlock her powers. Just as a matter of interest, do you recognise me?” Dacia asked politely peering over at the man.

“Not really, have we met?” Designation: Hawkeye looked confused by the sudden change in topic.

“That’s disappointing, we met back when Thor initially crashed down. Maybe you remember me as Darcy Lewis, Dr Foster’s spacy intern?” Dacia prodded for answers, knowing that she would want to take any answers she could get.

“I remember the name, but you weren’t considered completely important or even relevant back then.” Designation: Hawkeye tried to apologise.

“That’s fine, turns out that you aren’t as good at your former job as you thought you were. Disappointing. Oh well, up you get.” Dacia gestured to the man to get up.

Taking his wrists, she locked them behind his wrist and gently led the man back to his cell. Dacia knew that at this point, Designation: Hawkeye would have plenty of time to think to himself about some of what he had learned and she wanted to make sure that she didn’t overload him with too much information.

Walking the man back to the cell’s was a quiet walk. Dacia glanced at the man and knew that he probably felt like his mind was swimming with all of the information that he had been told. Maybe now the man would definitely be able to see the ‘light’ so to speak and begin to think for himself again.

WHOOSH

When he made his way into the small room that he now had the feeling he could call BS on the whole purpose he was out here. He was now able to guess beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Scott had been in one of the interviews the day before, and he had more than likely been told something that he couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Clint felt like he had to wonder what exactly Scott had been told, judging by some of what he had been told had been hard to believe. What’s more is Clint had been there for some of it, he had to question how good his eyesight was if he had missed some of the things that should have been so clear.

Clint had to wonder what had gone on after he had left the Avengers, what the hell had happened there. Clint also thought of his young family back home, could he look them in the eyes and teach them to be polite, to say please and thank you, if he had indeed forgotten to do that himself? He didn’t understand what had possessed him to think it was a good idea to leave them behind. He was supposed to be out of this life, wasn’t he?

Looking over at a panicked Steve’s cell, the man was constantly bleating questions before Clint lost his temper.

“What the hell are we doing here? Who gave you the bright idea to get us all involved in your mess? Why did I come out, when I was out? WHAT DID YOU DO TO STARK? WHAT DID YOU DO TO THIS TEAM?”

Clint watched as the man opened his mouth as if he was ready to say something to defend himself. He also watched as the man closed his mouth, unable to find anything to say.

“You disgust me, hell I disappoint myself” Clint whispered before turning from the glass cell door. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to know if Rogers had caught what he had said, but he knew that he couldn’t look at the man for much longer without becoming sick to his stomach.

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Even if Lillie and I are both working to stop Lusamine, save her, or both, I’m still not sure I trust her. If I’m going to help her summon a legendary Pokémon capable of wreaking an age of eclipse upon Alola, I want my own damn legendary Pokémon in case things suddenly turn pear-shaped… and luckily, I know just where to find one: back on Ula’ula Island, just across the bay from Aether House.

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Zygarde is one of the most inscrutable Pokémon around. I still have no idea what it’s even doing in Alola, and its sense of justice, balance and order is a little alien to me. But I know one thing: the kind of chaos that the Ultra Wormholes and Ultra Beasts will bring to the region is anathema to Zygarde, and fighting other legendary Pokémon is what it was made for. In generation VI, its Aura Break ability was only useful against Xerneas and Yveltal, since they were the only Pokémon with Aura abilities, but here in Alola… I suspect, and have every intention of testing this suspicion, that the auras used by both the Totem Pokémon and the Ultra Beasts to increase their powers will also fall under Zygarde’s influence. Gladion thinks his weird-ass Pokémon is a beast killer? Wait until he sees my weird-ass Pokémon…

The team:

Tane the Decidueye Male, Timid nature, Overgrow ability Level 40 Steel Wing, Razor Leaf, Synthesis, Spirit Shackle

Rhea the Toucannon Female, Lax nature, Keen Eye ability Level 39 Screech, Roost, Beak Blast, Brick Break

Ashley the Psychu Female, Timid nature, Surge Surfer ability Level 39 Discharge, Hidden Power (Ice), Nasty Plot, Psychic

Joanna the Salazzle Female, Timid nature, Corrosion ability Level 39 Flame Burst, Nasty Plot, Sludge Bomb, Toxic

Sigourney the Golisopod Female, Careful nature, Emergency Exit ability Level 40 Brick Break, Payback, First Impression, Leech Life

Zygarde Genderless, Sassy nature, Aura Break ability Level 30 Safeguard, Stone Edge, Dragon Dance, Thousand Arrows

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5 Reasons You Need to Strengthen Your Pelvic Floor

Hiya Gorgeous!

Have you ever noticed the stigma that surrounds women’s health?

Whether you’ve felt embarrassed putting pantyliners or lubricant on the belt at the supermarket, skipped confiding in your friends when you’re facing a challenge or avoided asking your doctor because it felt uncomfortable—you’re not alone.

So many women go without the answers and support they need because of this strange stigma.

That’s especially true when it comes to pelvic floor issues. In fact, many women have never even heard of their pelvic floor, let alone the pelvic floor exercises they can use to get stronger.

To be honest, I used to be one of them. Even as I began to own my health everywhere else, I paid little attention to what was going on “downstairs”. After all, I had my hands full with my cancer journey and didn’t want to deal with anything below the belt.

Sadly, women’s health wasn’t something many of us talked about growing up and, like many women, I inherited some shame around my body and how it actually works. So to avoid that shame, I also avoided understanding or talking about it.

If you’ve had a similar experience, I’m here to encourage us to start embracing this conversation.

That’s especially true when it comes to pelvic floor health, because a weak pelvic floor is the culprit behind some of the biggest health challenges women face, especially as we get older. Everything from leaking a little when you laugh or sneeze, to pelvic pain, or diminished sexual pleasure can stem from pelvic floor problems.

That’s why I’ve invited my brilliant friend, Isa Herrera, to join us on the blog today. Isa is a pelvic healer—and my go-to source anytime I need expert info on this facet of my well-being.

The first time I mentioned her on the blog, I received a flood of comments from women suffering from pelvic floor symptoms who had just dismissed them as unavoidable—the natural result of age or childbirth. They were so excited to hear that some simple, at-home pelvic floor therapy could help!

So today, I want you to hear directly from Isa. She’ll share 5 Reasons You Need to Strengthen Your Pelvic Floor, plus a *free* tool to help you get started with pelvic floor exercises today.

Are you ready? I’ll let Isa guide us from here.

Can Pelvic Floor Exercises Help You?

Ever peed your pants just a tiny bit when you sneezed?

Found yourself with a sudden, uncontrollable urge to urinate when you’re walking through the grocery store?

Has your ability to enjoy sex decreased because you’re in pain? Or are you having lackluster orgasms?

Then, my friend, you’re experiencing problems with your pelvic floor muscles.

Childbirth, age, cancer treatment, and time spent sitting can all lead to atrophy of the pelvic floor muscles.

Fortunately, you can reverse these effects with pelvic floor therapy (AKA giving your pelvic floor an easy, at-home workout). In just a few minutes a day, you can perform simple exercises that will put your pelvic problems in your rearview mirror.

In all my years working with thousands of women from around the world, I can say with certainty that every single woman can benefit from strengthening their pelvic floor. Just as you’d work out your arm or leg muscles, these precious muscles that sit at the core of your being need love too.

The pelvic floor muscles act as a foundation for your entire abdomen, and they also control your urethra, anus and vagina. Which means they are the key to proper elimination and sexual function.

Keep reading for my top 5 reasons every woman should consider making these pelvic-saving exercises a part of her life.

5 Reasons You Should Consider Pelvic Floor Therapy

Reason #1 – You’re sitting way too much

Chances are, you’ve been sitting a lot lately. Almost 26% of adults report sitting for more than 8 hours a day.

Not only do we sit to work, but we sit while we commute, we sit while we eat, and we sit while we binge-watch Netflix. And we’ve all been sitting even more than normal the past few months.

All of this sitting wreaks havoc on your muscles, and your pelvic floor suffers the most.

While your pelvic muscles experience atrophy with age—sitting amplifies this problem. And sitting with poor posture, or at a workstation that isn’t optimized ergonomically can make things even worse.

Reason #2 – You wet yourself just a little every time you cough (or you have to look for the bathroom every 5 minutes)

Before I was a pelvic healer, my friends and I would roll our eyes knowingly when we would “pee our pants laughing”.

We’d been told that it was normal after aging or having children to wet yourself a little when you laugh, sneeze, exercise, or cough.

But after 20 years working with over 15,000 women, I can tell you for sure—it’s not necessary to deal with this horrible inconvenience.

The same goes for those of you with the overwhelming urge to hit the bathroom that comes on out of nowhere like a freight train. I know it’s so frustrating to have to plan every walk and shopping trip around bathroom breaks.

But when you learn to strengthen your pelvic floor the right way, you can forget about this bad information you’ve received from your mother and her mother. You can master the muscles required to control all of your problems related to urination and forget about those horrid pantyliners.

Reason #3 – You’re tired of having pelvic pain you can’t shake

Chronic pelvic pain is an $800 million dollar a year business for the United States healthcare system.

So many women experience pelvic pain and their doctors can’t explain why.

A lot of women bounce from doctor to doctor without getting any explanation or relief from their symptoms.

Fortunately, most of these women can find the relief they’re seeking with proper pelvic floor balancing techniques.

They may not, in fact, need to strengthen their pelvic floor per se, but instead find a proper balance and learn how to relax these muscles. I call these types of exercises the “unkegel”.

Unfortunately, most doctors want to prescribe painkillers rather than actually heal the problem.

Reason #4 – You don’t want to have surgery (or an injection) down there!

There are a lot of circumstances that could lead you to (reluctantly) consider these options.

Maybe you’ve been prescribed painkillers for your pelvic problems.

Or perhaps you’ve been through chemotherapy that’s left your entire body weak, your estrogen levels in the dirt, your pelvic floor muscles tired and your vaginal tissues dry and thin.

Or maybe your doctor has suggested injections or surgery as a means of “fixing” your pelvic floor or reversing your prolapse.

But before you consider these dangerous and likely unnecessary procedures, I’d beg you to try something less invasive, like pelvic floor exercises.

I’d also urge you to consider the fact that the FDA has decided that transvaginal mesh surgical implants are no longer a safe treatment for prolapse.

I’ve been saying this for years, since I’ve seen so many women struggle after this surgery and seen many that had to have additional surgery to have it removed.

Is there any woman on the face of the earth who actually *wants* to submit to vaginal injections or surgery down there? Especially when simple, at-home pelvic floor therapy can strengthen these muscles and heal prolapse?

Trust me, I understand why you’d consider these options—I’ve been there myself and I’m so grateful I discovered an alternative.

Reason #5 – Your pelvic problems are ruining your sex life

If you’re feeling like you have to make excuses to avoid being intimate with your partner because of your pelvic issues, you’re not alone.

Studies show that up to 45% of women with urinary incontinence will avoid sex.

Women with pelvic prolapse are less likely to participate in sex and more likely to have sexual dysfunction.

I mean, who can blame any woman for avoiding sex when their lady parts aren’t functioning at their best? Who in their right mind would look forward to intimacy when they know it’s going to cause pain?

But the good news is this: Having a strong pelvic floor has actually been shown in clinical studies to be associated with higher rates of sexual activity.

And I can say for sure in all my years working with women across the globe that those who get back in touch with their feminine energy and heal their pelvic floor without a doubt rekindle their sexual desire as well (especially since stronger muscles = stronger orgasms).

You can make huge strides in a few minutes a day!

If you’re reading this far and nodding your head along the way, you’re probably asking “How can I strengthen my pelvic floor?”

I’ve got great news for you—it’s really not that hard, once you know what to do.

In fact, you can strengthen your pelvic floor in just a few minutes a day with super simple pelvic floor exercises that you can do while you’re doing the dishes or even sitting at work!

These techniques are something that every woman should learn. The fact of the matter is that half of the women over the age of 80 and about 40% of the women aged 40-69 experience symptoms of weakened pelvic floor muscles. That’s one-fourth of the women in the United States!

And you need to maintain and strengthen your pelvic floor even if you’re not experiencing problems yet. It’s the simplest way to prevent the inevitable atrophy of these precious, life-giving muscles.

A Free Resource to Get You Started!

That’s exactly why I’ve created my NEW Pelvic Power Masterclass: Stop Leaking, Heal Prolapse, and Relieve Intimacy Pain In The Comfort Of Your Own Home.

I’ve wrapped every single ounce of knowledge I’ve garnered over my 20 years as the country’s leading pelvic healer into this class.

I’m sharing ALL my secrets—because I want to empower you to take back control of your pelvic health.

I want you to be able to confidently leave the house without a care in the world about where your next restroom stop will have to be.

I want you to toss your pantyliners.

I want you to experience intimacy with your partner like you used to.

And I want you to have all of this information for FREE.

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You’re the CEO of Every Part of Your Health!

I love this guidance from Isa. I’m grateful for her candor and for her practical approach to pelvic floor therapy. I hope her insight has been as empowering for you as it has for me!

Remember that you’re the CEO of your health, sweetheart! You have agency to improve your wellbeing—and that’s true for every part of you, including your pelvic floor.

I hope Isa’s guidance has given you clarity about the cause of any symptoms you’re experiencing. I also hope you’ll join me on her free training to get practical tips to resolve those problems.

Let’s shake the stigma and get the support we need to have healthier pelvic floors—and happier lives.

Your turn: Are you excited to learn more about strengthening your pelvic floor?

Peace & powerful pelvises,

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Women’s Fitness: Should It Change with Age?

Generally speaking, the basic Primal Blueprint for fitness and physical activity applies equally to men and women of all ages. Lifting heavy things works in everyone. Sprinting is a fantastic way—for anyone who’s able—to compress workouts and improve training efficiency. Improving one’s aerobic capacity through easy cardio doesn’t discriminate between the sexes. And everyone should walk, hike, garden, and perform as much low level physical activity as possible. These basic foundations—the 30,000 foot view of fitness—don’t really change across age or sex.

But the details do, especially for women.

You see, women are in a unique position. As men age, the hormonal environment degenerates. They still make the same basic hormones in the same proportions, only the absolute numbers decline. As women age, the hormonal environment shifts dramatically. The menopausal ovaries no longer produce enough follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) to regulate estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone, causing the latter hormones to fluctuate in novel ways.

What kind of hormonal changes and physiological developments occur in the aging woman that might affect how best to train?

Atrophied muscle and reduced strength. As estrogen drops, so does muscle function.

More of a “male” body fat distribution. Postmenopausal women tend to gain more belly fat.

Reduced bone mass. The menopausal hormonal environment leads to a reduction in vitamin D synthesis and absorption, lower calcium levels, and reduced bone mass.

Vascular changes. After menopause, arteries become stiffer. Hypertension becomes more likely.

Exercise intolerance. This one’s a real bummer. You know you need to exercise more than ever to stave off some of the side effects of aging, but your aging hormonal environment is making exercise harder to tolerate.

What takeaways are there? How can you counter or mitigate some of these effects?

Exercise Can Improve Body Comp

Exercise becomes more effective at improving body composition after menopause than before. This may be a “benefit” of the more male body fat distribution patterns. After all, men’s body comp tends to respond more quickly to training than women’s.

Get Started Right Away

If you don’t have much experience with exercise, do it immediately. Don’t wait for the negative effects to accrue. Even if you’ve lived a charmed life where not exercising didn’t really impact your ability to function, that could very well change. The earlier into menopause you start training, the better. The negative changes to exercise tolerance, bone density, and muscle function take awhile to develop, and during the early post-menopause period, your ability to train and reap the benefits of that training is pretty similar to your pre-menopause ability.

Just Do Something

The perimenopausal and early menopausal years can be rough going for many women. You just feel off. You’re not sleeping well. Things are, well, different, and you don’t necessarily have a lot of support to make sense of it or adjust to it. Even though research shows that a minimal amount of exercise can have a big effect on weight gain and disease risk after menopause, sleeplessness or fatigue might be telling you not to do it. Well, that’s not going to cut it. Overcome that. There’s no easy way to say this. No tricks. Just make the decision to exercise, do so regularly for at least a couple weeks, and your exercise tolerance will go up, physical activity will be intrinsically rewarding, and everything will start to improve.

Make Sure You Eat Enough Meat, Dairy, and Other Animal Foods

Protein utilization efficiency drops the older you get, so the older you are the more protein you need to get the job done. Even studies that purport to show negative effects from meat consumption find that older adults benefit from increasing meat. Total protein and dairy protein intake also predict muscle mass and bone mass in postmenopausal women. And meat isn’t just about the protein. It’s also about the micronutrients, like iron, copper (found in organ meats), zinc (high in red meat), carnitine (high in red meat), and phosphatidylserine (high in egg yolks, present in Primal Calm)—all of which have been found to improve women’s physical performance when packaged in a convenient supplement.

Go Into Middle Age As Fit As Possible

Good fitness—aerobic capacity, muscle mass, physical strength, mobility—is a reserve against aging-related degeneration. The fitter you are when menopause hits, the more manageable the transition and the slower that degeneration will be over the subsequent decades.

Intensity Is Important

If anything, it’s more critical for the older woman to push the intensity than anyone else. She often has the most to lose in muscle mass and bone strength. Again and again, across study after study in menopausal women, “low-intensity” doesn’t work as well as higher-intensity training. It still works, mind you. But the greater intensity stuff gives extra benefits.

For instance, in a study comparing a low-intensity aerobic/resistance program to a higher-intensity aerobic/resistance program, both improved muscle strength and walking ability, but only the higher-intensity program improved dynamic balance—a major risk factor for falls.

Intensity Is Relative

By “high-intensity,” I’m not suggesting that a 62 year-old woman do high-rep bodyweight front squats or try to do a double bodyweight deadlift (unless she knows what she’s doing), just that she push the envelope ever so slightly. If your inclination is to do rows with 20 pound dumbbells, consider 25 pounders. If air squats are easy, try them with a weight vest. Sprinting doesn’t have to take place on a track; it can happen in a pool, on a tough hike, or on the bike. Things should be tough but doable.

Volume Should Be Moderate

Exercise has a way of brute forcing glucose tolerance by increasing insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake by muscles, so you’ll be better off than the women who don’t exercise at all, but there’s still a limit because menopause tends to inhibit carbohydrate metabolism and glucose tolerance. High volumes of training, especially if you’re heeding the previous advice to increase the intensity, demand a level of carbohydrate intake that your body probably isn’t prepared to handle.

Lift Heavy Things Twice a Week

You could do more, but I don’t think it’s necessary. Lifting (relatively) heavy weights provides the necessary stimulus to maintain bone density and muscle strength. Movements that engage the whole body, like deadlifts and farmer carries, will be most effective and efficient. These exercises replicate real world movements, like picking up grandkids or carrying grocery bags, that you need to perform. If you’re uncomfortable with these movements, find a good trainer.

Walk a Ton

Walking is magic for everyone, but especially post-menopausal women, for whom a three-day-a-week walking habit improves resistance to heart failure. Join a walking group. Better yet, start one in your circle of friends. Be the example, the leader. No one else will. And set a brisk pace when you do walk. The brisker, the better.

Always Choose the Stairs

Stair climbing itself is a great form of exercise for post-menopausal women, improving leg strength and endothelial function. As a mindset, “taking the stairs” is even more valuable. It’s doing the hard thing. It’s parking in the far lot and walking a quarter mile. It’s carrying your own bags. It’s a mindset to embody: “I’m strong enough, capable enough, and tough enough to take the stairs while people half my age use the elevator to go one floor.”

Compare Yourself To Who You Were Two Weeks Ago, Not the 20-Year-Olds At the Gym

The trend is everything. If you’re getting better, that’s what matters. You are not other people. We all have different situations, capacities, genetic histories, and hormonal profiles. Focus on beating your former self, even if only by a couple pounds lifted or seconds shaved from a sprint time—and nothing else.

Look Into Hormone Replacement Therapy

Since estrogen plays such a key role in women’s physiological function, many studies find exercise to be more beneficial in postmenopausal women who take HRT than in postmenopausal women who do not. It’s a highly personal choice, but I’ll have more on this topic in the future.

Aging women aren’t a different species. Menopause doesn’t really change how you should train in a fundamental way. There aren’t any magical menopause-specific exercises. It just makes certain types of training—and exercise in general—that much more important for health and overall function. You could “get away” with not training much before (not really, but you can fool yourself). Now you can’t. Now you have to exercise and move on a regular basis if you want to maintain functional capacity, take care of yourself, and stick around to enjoy your loved ones.

Thanks for reading, everyone. Take care, and I’d love to hear from any people out there with direct or indirect experience with menopause. How did your training change? How did you change?

As always, direct any questions down below.

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fishermariawo · 7 years ago

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Women’s Fitness: Should It Change with Age?

But the details do, especially for women.

What kind of hormonal changes and physiological developments occur in the aging woman that might affect how best to train?

Atrophied muscle and reduced strength. As estrogen drops, so does muscle function.

More of a “male” body fat distribution. Postmenopausal women tend to gain more belly fat.

Reduced bone mass. The menopausal hormonal environment leads to a reduction in vitamin D synthesis and absorption, lower calcium levels, and reduced bone mass.

Vascular changes. After menopause, arteries become stiffer. Hypertension becomes more likely.

What takeaways are there? How can you counter or mitigate some of these effects?

Exercise Can Improve Body Comp

Get Started Right Away

Just Do Something

Make Sure You Eat Enough Meat, Dairy, and Other Animal Foods

Go Into Middle Age As Fit As Possible

Intensity Is Important

Intensity Is Relative

Volume Should Be Moderate

Lift Heavy Things Twice a Week

Walk a Ton

Always Choose the Stairs

Compare Yourself To Who You Were Two Weeks Ago, Not the 20-Year-Olds At the Gym

Look Into Hormone Replacement Therapy

Thanks for reading, everyone. Take care, and I’d love to hear from any people out there with direct or indirect experience with menopause. How did your training change? How did you change?

As always, direct any questions down below.

Want to make fat loss easier? Try the Definitive Guide for Troubleshooting Weight Loss for free here.

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watsonrodriquezie · 7 years ago

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Women’s Fitness: Should It Change with Age?

But the details do, especially for women.

What kind of hormonal changes and physiological developments occur in the aging woman that might affect how best to train?

Atrophied muscle and reduced strength. As estrogen drops, so does muscle function.

More of a “male” body fat distribution. Postmenopausal women tend to gain more belly fat.

Reduced bone mass. The menopausal hormonal environment leads to a reduction in vitamin D synthesis and absorption, lower calcium levels, and reduced bone mass.

Vascular changes. After menopause, arteries become stiffer. Hypertension becomes more likely.

What takeaways are there? How can you counter or mitigate some of these effects?

Exercise Can Improve Body Comp

Get Started Right Away

Just Do Something

Make Sure You Eat Enough Meat, Dairy, and Other Animal Foods

Go Into Middle Age As Fit As Possible

Intensity Is Important

Intensity Is Relative

Volume Should Be Moderate

Lift Heavy Things Twice a Week

Walk a Ton

Always Choose the Stairs

Compare Yourself To Who You Were Two Weeks Ago, Not the 20-Year-Olds At the Gym

Look Into Hormone Replacement Therapy

Thanks for reading, everyone. Take care, and I’d love to hear from any people out there with direct or indirect experience with menopause. How did your training change? How did you change?

As always, direct any questions down below.

Want to make fat loss easier? Try the Definitive Guide for Troubleshooting Weight Loss for free here.

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